So I know I haven't been very active recently, but I've been on Wattpad reading fanfiction and also I have had writere block and trying to update my one-shot book on Wattpad (some one-shots but not all of them will be posted here)
This will have 2-5 parts and will be very emotional. It will not be all fluff. This is also over 2000 words, so be preapared.
Plo Koon Gets to be a Dad will be updated soon I promise.
Warning: major character death(s), the title may be fluffy, but this is not a fluffy fanfic. It may cause (some) emotional trauma, or just mess with your emotions a lot. Prepare for a really rough short story.
Infiltrating the Separatist base trying to be unnoticed was hard. Especially when the droids were on high alert for Jedi.
Still, they got in. And 'they' meant Anakin, Ahsoka, Rex, Jesse, Fives, and Hardcase.
They were here for information. Like, new battle strategies, old battle strategies, new but not modified droids, old but modified droids, new bases, old bases, that kind of stuff.
"Yes!" Ahsoka cheered as she cut down the last droid in the control room with her shoto. "We made it!"
"We still need to get out, remember?" Anakin sighed.
"Yes, but it's nice to know that at least the first part of the mission was successful." Ahsoka shrugged. "Which one of these button is the button to press..." She wondered out loud.
Fives smiled. "How about this one?" He pointed to a red button at the end of the control panel.
"We should not be pressing random buttons we might—" Rex got cut off by Hardcase interrupting him."Well we don't know how these weird Seppies do their control panels, so I think we should press random buttons."
Jesse nodded, "Yeah, it seems fun!"
Anakin sighed. "Do what you want."
"But General—" Rex tried, but Ahsoka smirked at him. "What the General says is what we do. So, Fives," her voice was dead serious and she looked him in the eye. "Press. The. Button."
Fives nodded. "I will, Commander." His voice was just, if not more, serious than Ahsoka's was. He slowly lowered his finger onto the button, and a loud speaker came on. It was a B1 Battle Droid talking.
"JEDI HAVE BEEN SIGHTED OUTSIDE THIS COMPOUND. ALL DROIDS THAN CAN ARE REQUIRED TO GO OUTSIDE TO FIGHT THE JEDI. THERE CAN BE NO OBJECTIONS TO THIS."
A chorus of awwwww's could be heard from all around the base, quickly followed by perfect in-synch sound of droids lining up to go outside and fight the Jedi that didn't exist.
Ahsoka could only hold in her laughter for so long. She almost fell over clutching her stomach laughing. Fives, Hardcase, Jesse, and Anakin were all doing the same thing, but only Rex wasn't laughing. He looked like he was using all his self control not to laugh.
"Okay which button next?" Jesse asked. "This button looks nice." The button was a square and yellow too.
Ahsoka nodded. "As Commander, I let you press that button."
Unlike Fives, who took his time, Jesse just slammed his finger down on the button.
Like before, an announcement started.
"THE JEDI HAVE TURNED INVISIBLE! THEY HAVE DISCOVERED INVISIBILITY!"
This time everyone burst out laughing.
"There are two more buttons. Which one should we press?" Hardcase frowned.
The first one was bright purple and very tall while the second one was very short and orange.
Ahsoka hesitated. "The orange one. I get good vibes from it."
Hardcase bowed to press it to add effect. He paused before pressing it. The plans slowly exited a small hole on the bottom right side if the control panel.
Like expected, the speakers activated.
"THE JEDI HAVE TELEPORTED IN THE BASE, GRABBED THE INFORMATION, THEN TELEPORTED OUT! I GUESS WE SHOULD JUST—GO INSIDE—NOW. THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO. WE TRIED, GUYS. WE REALLY TRIED."
"Why are these messages even recorded?" Anakin laughed. "We haven't even discovered invisibility or teleporting. Separatist droids are weird."
Rex nodded. "No doubt about it."
"Like, why put the plans on the bottom right of this control panel?" Ahsoka smirked as she grabbed the information. Unfortunately, she put her hand on the top and accidentally activated the purple one. "That was strangely satisfying to press." She commented.
"DARTH SIDIOUS HAS ENTERED THE BASE. SELF DESTRUCT HAS BEEN ACTIVATED BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW THAT BECAUSE HE CANNOT HEAR THIS MESSAGE. YOU HAVE FIVE STANDARD MINUTES." The speakers yelled.
"Well that's just stupid because he'd hear the speakers saying that to the droids." Rex muttered. His eyes widened. "Oh kriff the self destruct we need to go!"
"Come on," Anakin beckoned for Ahsoka and the clones to follow him out of the control room. "We're going out the back way. It may be farther, but we probably won't see a droid."
Everyone happily ran after him. Rex was right behind Anakin, Ahsoka was next to her Master, while Jesse, Hardcase, and Fives ran behind him, all of them having their weapons out in a ready position to kill any clanker that came their way.
The group ran down the hallways, right, left, left, left, right, left, right, right. All the hallways were just endless metal walks that looked the exact same.
Ahsoka didn't know how Anakin memorized this. Everything about Separatists was confusing, well, most things. There were some misguided Separatists like Mina Bonteri and unfortunately, Lux.
Ahsoka hated Lux with a burning passion. She did have a crush kn him until he kissed her so she would shut up and did it without her permission. That was when she began to hate him. He didn't even say thank you properly after she saved his life more than once. He clearly didn't know how to talk to a girl and was jaut a stuck-up selfish Separatist who she hated. I'm pretty sure Lux never said sorry properly and I'm nit gonna change it because I hate lux and he is stupid.
"Snips," Anakin pulled Ahsoka out of her thoughts.
Ansoka looked up at him, "Yeah, Skyguy?"
"I've been telling you to hack into this side panel to get out for ten seconds. Using lightsabers might speed up the self destruct countdown." Anakin sighed.
Ahsoka's lekku darkened in embarrassment. "Sorry, Master."
She kneeled down, peeled the door on the side off its hinges, and frowned when she saw all the wires. "Kriff that's a lot of wires." She muttered under her breath.
"I heard that." Anakin reminded her.
"Why can't you do this?" Ahsoka asked her Master.
"My hands are too big." Anakin smirked.
I'll steal that mechanical hand someday. Ahsoka promised herself. Now, her focus was on all these kriffing wires. "This is gonna take a minute."
Suddenly, four droidekas and a whole lot of B1 Battle Droids rolled/walked around the corner. All of them pulled out their blasters and like always, began firing at them.
Ahsoka barely dodged a blaster bolt to her head, so she reached for her lightsabers. Anakin shook his head at her, telling her to work on getting the doors open.
"THREE MINUTES LEFT UNTIL SELF DESTRUCT." The speakers told everyone.
Great. This is just great. Ahsoka sighed to herself. As she used a knife Padme gave her when she first became Anakin's Padawan to cut and move wires, Anakin, Rex, Jesse, Fives, and Hardcase fired and blocked shots from the endless waves of stupid clankers.
One stray shot hit Ahsoka on her arm, and she flinched, letting out a small cry of pain. She forgot how much it hurt to be shot.
Anakin looked over to her when he heard her cry of pain. "Oh my Force you got shot?"
Ansoka nodded, now only her her right hand to move the wires. It was a miracle that when she flinched nothing got out of place. If that happened, anything could happen, including speeding up the process of exploding the whole kriffing place.
"Yes." Ahsoka said through gritted teeth, trying to block out the agonizing pain.
"Told you Kix should have come." Anakin said to her.
"Yeah well Kix was still taking care of a lot of injured clones." Ahsoka argued.
"TWO MINUTES REMAINING." The stupid speaker announced. It was really getting on everybody's nerves.
"Please hurry up." Jesse said as he carefully rolled a grenade to the droideka closest to him. It went under the shield, and electrocuted and dismantled it.
"I'm trying!" Ahsoka snapped. She would apologize, but like Jesse had said ao nicely, she had to hurry up or else everyone would die. He left out that second part, but he didn't have to say it. Everyone was thinking about it. No one could deny it.
Fast forward to one minute left becsuse I know nothing about engineering, In this time period, Ahsoka made very little progress and is in a really bad mood. There are a lot of B1 Battle Droids left but only 1 droideka.
"ONE MINUTE REMAINING."
Ahsoka let out a hiss of annoyance. She couldn't be more stressed. She was so close to opening the doors, but the last kriffing wire was missing, which should be impossible. "Anakin the last wire isn't here." She tried to keep the panic and fear out of her voice but failed.
"Are you sure?" Anakin asked.
"I've checked five mig!" Ahsoka didn't even realize that she accidentally switched into Togruti. She did that when she got really angry, stressed, or excited.
"Ahsoka, you went into Togruti again in that last part." Anakin said this slowly and calmly. "Mig means time or times, right?"
Ahsoka nodded.
"THIRTY SECONDS UNTIL SELF DESTRUCT."
"General, if the wire is missing then you'll have to cut through the door." Rex reminded Anakin.
"I know." Anakin closed his eyes. "Ahsoka, sorry to make you do this with your arm hurt, but cover me while I cut through the door."
Ahsoka got up and ignited her lightsabers, blocking and dodging blaster bolts next to her brothers.
"TWENTY SECONDS UNTIL SELF DESTRUCT."
"SHUT UP YOU KRIFFING DI'KUT!" Hardcase yelled. Unfortunately, he left himself open, and got shot right in the middle of his chest. He was dead before he hit the ground.
"HARDCASE! NOOOOOOOO!" Fives mourned for his brother, but made sure that there was never a break in his defenses. "Ni su'cuyi, gar kyr'adyc, ni partayli, gar darasuum." Rex and Jesse whispered that too. It was a saying in Mando'a that meant: I'm still alive, but you are dead. I remember you, so you are eternal.
Ahsoka closed her eyes for a moment to remember Hardcase and someone pulled her out if the way of something, probably a blaster bolt. It was Anakin that pulled her out of the way. "The hole is in the door." He said.
The Padawan nodded. "Rex, Jesse, Fives, after you."
Fives was kneeling over Hardcase's body while Jesse and Rex were trying to get him to get up. Rex was whispering something in his ear while Jesse was gently trying to pick him up. In their state of sadness, Fives looked up in his grief just in time to see a blaster bolt hit him in the head.
"No, Fives." Rex cried.
Ahsoka was frozen to the spot. Hardcase, Fives, they were both dead.
What had gone wrong with this mission? Oh wait, she knew. It was her fault. She pressed the button that activated the stupid self destruct. She was unable to open the doors in time. She did nothing to stop this. It was her fault.
"TEN SECONDS UNTIL SELF DESTRUCT." That kriffing speaker yelled at what had to be the top of its lungs.
"Kriff!" Ahsoka accidentally let it slip out. Anakin would normally not be okay with it, but under these circumstances he was swearing too.
"NINE..."
"Ahsoka, get out of here. I'll get Jesse and Rex." Anakin ordered her.
"EIGHT..."
"But—" Ahsoka didn't get to finish. Anakin gave her a look of 'Ahsoka kriffing Tano if you don't get out of this base I will kill you myself.'
"SEVEN..."
So Ahsoka walked to the hole in the door, but when she looked back, Jesse had a blaster-sized hole in his side and Rex and Anakin were jsut barely dodging the bolts fired at them.
Rex was constantly dodging everything and didn't even have a chance to catch his breath.
Pretty soon after Jesse got shot, the ARC Trooper was dead.
"SIX..."
Ahsoka felt tears swell up in her eyes. There was no room, nor was there any time to escape.
"FIVE..."
The young Togruta felt her breaths become harder and harder to take in and become faster too. She was on the verge if hyperventilating.
"FOUR..."
"ANAKIN! REX!" Ahsoka yelled for them to follow her. Rex looked back at her, and got shot in his stomach. There was no way he'd be able to escape now.
"THREE..."
"AHSOKA GO NOW!" Anakin growled at her. Part of her wanted to listen to him, but she couldn't leave her brothers behind. She couldn't believe that just minutes ago she had been pressing random evil Seppie buttons with her brothers and was having fun.
"TWO..."
"I SAID NOW!" Anakin was unable to dodge a blaster bolt to his right shoulder. He fell down, but was still alive. Everyone else was long dead. Rex's body was littered with blaster bolts.
"ONE..."
The last thing Ahsoka saw before the base exploded was Anakin raising his hand and Force-pushing her far away. She would never forget the look of sadness and regret on Anakin's face before he was consumed by the fire.
Ahsoka knew it would haunt her dreams along with Rex's body, which had more holes in it than a normal corpse, Jesse, Hardcase, and Fives special armor which was now ruined and melted into trash. If there was one thing she knew for certain was that she was alone and that she didn't want to see or hear a single blaster bolt again. Ever.
Ahsoka ran towards the wreckage to look for a survivor, even though she knew there would be none. She used the Force to pull away a large sheet of metal.
Under it was Anakin. After a second of looking at his burnt up body she forced herself to look away. His body was unrecognizable.
She kneeled down, and took his lightsaber off his belt, then reached fir his mechanical hand. She had stolen his mechanical hand after all. Anakin loved both items and wouldn't let anyone clean them. He had a specific routine. Ahsoka had watched and teased him clean kt enoih to know it.
She felt a tear slide down her cheek, then left. All her brothers were gone.
And now, she had no one.
Yay a small multi-chapter fanfic. Like I said, this won't be long like the big one I'm writing.
Also, sorry for the emotional trauma. I took some breaks writing this and my mood changed, which influences my writing.
This will have a lot of hurt/comfort but a bit of angst and maybe some whump too.
Fun Behind the Scenes Fact: when I was writing the part about Anakin being all burnt and stuff all I could think was: Wow looks like Anakin got set on fire anyway